High Above

That's the way it is.

After the incident of pretending to be the Dragon Worship Cult in Feiyan Land and raiding the scholar group participating in the Gushan Conference was basically over, only a few people discovered that Ian and his group suddenly disappeared.

Except for Tres, everyone who knew about this incident chose to remain silent.

They may not all be the elite in their respective departments, but having been undercover for so long, they have long since learned how to manage their curiosity... and maintain appropriate silence.

So, after a while.

Late at night, light rain.

Ian, who was riding a horse with dark blue scales, and another horse with red scales, carrying a salute, followed the track towards the north at a brisk pace.

The two goblins whirled and flew beside the horse and the boy, laughing happily.

Moonfire grass is planted around the town of Li, which is a sublimated plant that can be used to prepare alchemical potions related to light. When they are struck by raindrops, they will emit a gleaming fire like a ghost flame. From this grassland Speeding past, it was like being surrounded by countless stars.

Smelling the faint fragrance of vegetation and flowers in the dark summer night, the young man smiled and stood side by side with countless fluorescent lights in the night rain.

Then, the light rain gradually stopped.

In this dark night without stars or moon, the earth should have been shrouded in darkness.

However, at the far end of the sky, where the long clouds overlapped, there was a faint light that reached the sky and was so huge that it seemed to penetrate the sky and the earth, standing at the end of the field of vision.

Colorful rainbow light spread around the clouds, but the light beam itself broke through the clouds and mountains and reached high into the sky.

--What's this? Where does the light come from to be so huge and bright?

When the young man saw this, he was slightly startled and thought about these questions instinctively.

But then he spurred his horse forward.

He and the goblins came to the top of a hill and looked into the distance, at the center of the vast Quinor Plain.

Then, Ian briefly forgot to think.

He heard the sound of the wind.

The terrain of the Setal Empire is very strange. The entire country is surrounded by many mountains, which can almost be said to be blocked.

Even though there is moisture from south to north in the Nanling Mountains, Kallan Mountains and Falut Mountains, and there is moisture from north to south in the direction of Meditation Sea and Wusha Port, it is impossible to make the heart of the empire moist. Mild enough to allow normal farming, allowing people to live comfortably.

This would be true even if someone leveled all the towering mountains within the empire.

But now, he understands.

In the summer of Quinault Plain, the sea breeze blowing from the Everlasting Ocean in Nanling is surging. This wind passes through the vast forest next to the Byson Mountains, and then passes through the endless golden fields. It crosses the Earth Hurricane Bridge and blows through the black sea. Lake, passing through the vast hills, forests and sea of ​​big trees in the Jerol area, advancing straight along a long road.

Of course, the wind that passes through the vast natural cycle in the heaven and earth is not so persistent because of nature itself, but because of a force, a force that originates from humans but is beyond the natural cycle, so it is persistent all the way. came here.

The cool wind after the rain blew the young man's hair forward, but Ian had no energy to care about this trivial matter. He squinted his eyes and stared as hard as possible at the magnificent structure that emerged in front of him.

It was a huge spectacle that transcended the nature of this era.

Under a huge light pillar that penetrates the sky and the earth, there is a black shadow that is even bigger than the mountains. It is like a solitary mountain standing in the boundless plain. It is a land where there is nothing blocking your vision when you look around. , the only giant structure that can block human sight.

Its majestic figure stands in the center of Quinall Plains, with unparalleled majesty.

Shadows cover it, but there are layers upon layers of it, and tiny, glowing things flicker on its surface.

The wind moved towards it, as if it was attracted by a deep gravitational abyss, and seemed to want to become part of the pillar of light that penetrated the entire planet's atmosphere.

This is a city.

A huge city built on steel peaks and 10,000-meter lonely mountains!

Ian was riding on the horse. He looked far away, quietly staring at this huge behemoth covered in shadow. It is like a volcano rising from the flat ground. It is 10,000 meters high and more than 15 kilometers wide, but it also has a thicker foundation deep in the earth. The metal structure is shining brightly reflecting the moonlight in the distance. And the jet outlet that was releasing a bright beam of light reminded the young man of something.

"How can this be……"

Ian whispered to himself, and the young man stared at the outline of the huge city with a dazed and longing gaze, curious and confused.

He shook his head slightly: "This is a planetary engine?!"

"No...this is, this is a planetary shield generator?!"

No one could answer his question, not even the goblins.

Hua An and Shuangdie both stared at the magnificent scenery in the distance. The little elf fell into a kind of shock at the majestic and majestic beauty, while the elf lady just felt that she should not speak at this moment.

Until they heard a roar.

Boom, boom.

The sound of the train's alchemy furnace was running on the track, and the roar of the engine was endless. The boy turned his head and looked at the track beside the road. An alchemy train was driving straight forward, passing him, crossing towns and countryside, towards the plains. Central gallop.

Not just it.

Ian turned his head and looked around the entire Quinault Plain. On the land covered by moonlight and darkness, there were many light spots shining with tiny lights, converging towards the huge city.

Train after train, like water droplets made of steel, merge into the ocean of steel, merging into it...Dense black spots and light spots intersect, moving slowly on this lonely mountain made by human power.

That is the city of man, the moss covering the shell of the mountains.

yes. Days like this have passed on Terra for years, decades, hundreds and thousands of years.

Time leaves marks on the steel, and the earth repeats the cycle of fertility and barrenness, until mushrooms and moss grow on the rocks, until the seeds grow into towering trees.

The traces of human habitation and human cities are just like that moss and those big trees.

You can see the imperial capital here. And this is the imperial capital.

"I see."

Looking at the city, Ian whispered to himself.

He smiled softly, raised his head, and looked up at the rolling rain clouds, as if he had returned to that rainy night four years ago.

There was no thunder in the sky at this moment, but there was a beam of light that was even more scorching than the thunder, reaching high into the sky.

"Teacher, I understand."

The young man said to Gao Tian softly with a nostalgic tone: "Yes, yes. This is what you told me and what you passed on to me."

"What you want to teach me and entrust to me..."

"A fortified city that never moves."

We’re in the imperial capital, please give me a monthly ticket!

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